Rappoport Publishes New Monthly Article for Irrigation Related Construction Defect Cases

March 21, 2011 - PRLog -- In this months publication, Mr. Rappoport provides compelling insight into issues affecting irrigation construction negligence cases.  Determining standard of care can be difficult due to the varying levels of landscape irrigation construction sophistication.

Irrigation operational accidents such as burst main lines causing flooding and attendant property damage to tripping hazards caused by sprinkler heads and resultant personal injury are discussed along with analysis on causes, investigative procedures and determining the standard of care.  Below is a quote from the article:


"A tired executive returns home in the evening from a long day at work, while walking along the pathway to the front door he trips over a sprinkler head in the adjacent planter bed, looses his balance and falls awkwardly, breaking his neck and suffering paralysis from the neck down.

While attending a crowded outdoor festival, a family decides they want some ice cream, but the sidewalk to the store is packed with people attending the outdoor event, so they decide to follow others and take a short cut across a planter area to avoid the crowd.  The mother trips and falls over an irrigation remote control valve box, resulting in a broken ankle, lost work, and a long painful rehabilitation.

A general contractor directs the landscape sub-contractor to install a temporary irrigation hi-line above grade.  Over a holiday weekend, the irrigation hi-line breaks, flooding the work site and destroying the open footing trenches.  The general contractor sues the landscape contractor for defective work and resultant damages exceeding 100K.

If you are a construction negligence and defect attorney, you have most likely encountered cases similar to the examples noted above.  From my experience, irrigation systems and their components are the cause for many landscape construction defect cases.  

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Jeremy Rappoport is President of Rappoport Development Consulting Services LLC, providing landscape, arboriculture, horticulture, site construction and development consulting and expert witness services.

Mr. Rappoport is a graduate from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, possessing a Bachelor of Science degree in Ornamental Horticulture, emphasis in landscape architecture and landscape contracting. Mr. Rappoport is a professional horticulturist, a California state C-27 landscape contractor and a certified arborist.

Mr. Rappoport is a construction and development professional with decades experience working for private and public master development companies. Rappoport is field experienced as a landscape, grading, and offsite superintendent with the Baldwin Company, Continental and D.R. Horton Homes, and held senior management positions as Director of Operations for Starwood Santa Fe Valley Partners and Director of Land Development for K. Hovnanian Homes.